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BLAIR CRAWFORD Founder and  Managing Director, Daltrey   Blair Crawford is a biometrics and identity management specialist with extensive experience  helping  global  organisations  solve their most pressing cyber security, risk and compliance challenges. Leveraging this wealth of experience, he recently established Daltrey – a unique security solution that delivers biometrics as a service for wor...

Rachael Greaves is a records and information management thought leader,  who  designed the Castlepoint command and control product. Rachael has consulted on large-scale records, security and audit projects in government and regulated industries with complex integrated environments, and developed Castlepoint in response to the tension seen in organisations between compliance, usability, sustainabil...

Professor Lisa Harvey-Smith  is the Australian Government’s Women in STEM Ambassador and a Professor of Practice at the University of New South Wales. In her role as  Women in STEM Ambassador , Lisa is responsible for increasing the participation of women and girls in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) studies and careers across Australia. She is an award-winning astrophysicis...

Jo Stewart-Rattray CISM CGEIT CISA CRISC CP Director, BRM Advisory ISACA member Adelaide business leader and information security veteran, Jo Stewart-Rattray, has been recognised for her tireless work educating and mentoring future generations of IT professionals and breaking down gender barriers in the IT industry, taking out Highly Commended in the Australian Women in Security Network’s 2020 Awa...

Kris has an extensive experience both running his own businesses as well as a successful corporate career across Asia, Europe, North America and then in Australia. Kris has started and run businesses successfully as well as cases of learnings from his adventures. He also has corporate career including internal transformations as well as leading customer engagements and sales for small to large mul...

As Managing Director for BlackBerry’s Spark Division, Jason Duerden is responsible for building and executing the business in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ). In this region, he drives strategy, operations and growth of BlackBerry’s next-generation platform, BlackBerry Spark. Jason brings over 10 years of leadership and business management and technology acumen experience to BlackBerry with domain...

Mandy is a firm believer that diversity in all its forms should be encouraged to promote innovation and find solutions to challenges facing the world. She herself has had a diverse career ranging from musician, artist, fraud investigator, risk assessor, trainer and analyst. She is currently the Manager of The University of Queensland Cyber Security Operation Centre, and prior to that was a Senior...

Gus began his security journey almost 20 years ago by hacking schools library system to remove fines and had against his name. After he realised he could compromise and manipulate computer systems he continued his journey, albeit illicitly. He was later recruited directly out of high school by the Special Investigating Unit, a government agency, and thus began his professional career. Since then h...

Chris Pogue is the Head of Nuix Partner Connect, the global ecosystem of more than 150 partners representing 74 different countries. He is also a member of the US Secret Service Electronic Crimes Task Force, The International Association of Chiefs of Police, and the International Association of Financial Crimes Investigators. Over his 25-year career, Chris has led multiple professional security an...

Ben has an extensive background in cloud security and enterprise software, with over twenty years in enterprise software; primarily in Security and Compliance. Starting his technical career building data centers as a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, Ben then secured data centers for Fortune 500 customers at McAfee. Learning common security challenges from customers, Ben moved into product man...

Director of Cybersecurity TPRM, UpGuard, Tulin is a strategic thinker and cyber risk management specialist with experience in public and private sectors. Tulin has held senior positions with Commonwealth Bank, Westpac, Optiver and Deloitte. Amongst Tulin’s career she has successfully started up and led a cybersecurity practice at a boutique consultancy and is now leading the TPRM team at UpGuard g...

Dave is an accomplished executive with a strong affinity for technology and keen business sense for the application of emerging solutions. He has a proven talent for identifying core business needs and translating into outcomes. Prior to joining Haventec Dave spent ~20 years at Accenture where he occupied a number of geographic leadership, account leadership and delivery leadership roles including...

Ben Johnson is CTO and co-founder of Obsidian Security. Prior to founding Obsidian, he co-founded Carbon Black and most recently served as the company’s Chief Security Strategist. As the company’s original CTO, he led efforts to create the powerful capabilities that helped define the next-generation endpoint security space. Prior to Carbon Black, Ben was an NSA computer scientist, and later worked...

My passion for cyber-security stems from my interest in mystery novels and crime shows since the age of 8. Somehow, I enjoyed the process of unravelling the unidentified. Being an ardent leaner, I explored my interest in computer science and being a consistent school topper, I was fortunate enough to secure the Vice-Chancellor scholarship at Western Sydney University. As an addition to my degree,...

Todd is a 33-year-old entrepreneur who started computer programming when he was 7 years of age. He earned a scholarship in 2004, and graduated with honours in 2006. He started an onsite computer repair business, to pay for fuel during University, and has since had a slew of start-ups that have been successful. Todd is currently focused on a new cybersecurity business called Dull. With new technolo...

Garrett O’Hara is the Principal Technical Consultant at Mimecast having joined in 2015 with the opening of the Sydney office, leading the growth and development of the local team. With over 20 years of experience across development, UI/UX, technology communication, training development and mentoring, Garrett now works to help organisations understand and manage their cyber resilience strategies an...

Sam is a young technology enthusiast who’s found passion in cybersecurity at an early age. He was recruited to work for the Australian government while still in high school. He founded Kasada before turning 20 and has been able to raise USD 7 million at the end of 2019 with CIA backed In-Q-Tel as its latest investor. Kasada provides a solution that helps organisations protect from user account tak...

Adam is an high-energy leader, military veteran, and business executive with practical leadership experience working in diverse and complex environments. As CEO of CyAmast, an Australian founded technology company – specialising in IoT network security solutions, he is steering the company through a dramatic and successful scale-up period. Their technology sits at the intersection of Machine Learn...

Jacqueline Jayne (JJ) currently serves as Security Awareness Advocate for the APAC region for KnowBe4, the world’s most popular security awareness and simulated phishing platform. With over 20 years’ experience as a conduit between people and technology, she has mastered the art of communication and influence. Previously, she led a successful cybersecurity education and awareness program that chan...

Mark works for Lockton Companies Australia, the worlds largest privately owned insurance brokerage and risk advisor. Mark is the Head of Lockton’s Australian Cyber & Technology Practice, and works with the Global Cyber and Technology team advising clients on the insurable nature of their associated cyber, privacy and technology risks. His experience encompasses advising small business to ASX t...

Mike Thompson is the CTO and Co-founder of HackHunter. HackHunter protects organisations by detecting and tracking malicious WiFi and WiFi-operated drones. Mike is an IoT expert with an extensive background in Information and Cyber Security. Amongst Mike’s many roles, he has: Worked as a CISO for an Insurance Company Consulted to over 50 organisations, including Telstra, NAB and the Privacy Commis...

Dr. Alana Maurushat is Professor of Cybersecurity and Behaviour at Western Sydney University where she holds a joint position in the School of Computer Science & Mathematics, and in the School of Social Sciences and Criminology, and is Key Researcher with the CRC Smart Satellites. She is currently researching on Payment Diversion Fraud and Ransomware, Tracking Money-Laundering through Bitcoin...

Daniel Graves is currently Chief Technology Officer at Delphix, responsible for strategy technology partnerships including AWS, GCP, IBM, Oracle, SAP and Microsoft. Graves is a software and cloud industry veteran of over 20 years with a diverse background in other functions including technology partnerships, business development, marketing, CTO, sales management, program management, presales, and...

• Experienced Researcher – 20 years experience holding senior positions in research at Channel Nine, Seven Network, News Corp and Fairfax Media. • Held representative roles on the IAB Research and Measurement Councils, working on major industry projects. • Developed multiple market-first research pieces throughout my career; notably the Online Video Research and Mobile Internet Research, the first...

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, RiskIQ, Elias Manousos is a security technology expert and experienced executive with over 20 years of delivering enterprise security solutions. Prior to co-founding RiskIQ, Elias was VP of R&D at Securant Technologies (acquired by RSA), an Internet leader in authorization and single sign-on (SSO). At Securant, he was instrumental in pioneering the now c...